Improvement in the method of making and attaching metallic buttons to clothes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FESTUS HAYDEN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OF MAKING AND ATTACHlNG METALLIC BUTTONS T0CLOTHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1.682. dated July 10,1840.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FEsTUs HAYDEN, of Waterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulimprovement in the manufacture of buttons for braces and other purposes,and

in the mode of attaching them to cloth, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention and improvement consists in making the button in twoparts-viz., the front plate or face and the shank or rivet. The frontplate or body of the button is made in the usual form of brace orsuspender buttons, except that instead of four holes in the concavepart, for attaching them to the cloth,'I make one hole only,in thecenter. Theshank or rivet is made with a fiat head, and a neck to fitthe hole in the center .of the button or body, and may be of compositionmetal and ast in a mold. Buttons thus formed are atinched to cloth bypassing the neck of the shank through the cloth and then through thebody of the button, and riveting them firmly together by means of aconcave punch button, with the hole for the shank in the center of theconcavepart; Fig.2, a side view of the back Fig. 3, the shank or rivet.Fig. 4 exhibits the button attached to cloth.

What I claim as my invention is- The method of attaching buttons tocloth by riveting, and of manufactuiing the parts for that purpose,combined in the mannersubstantiall y as specified above, and thereforsolicit Letters Patent.

May 16, 1840.

- FESTUS HAYDEN. Witnesses SIMEoN BALDWIN, ELIsHA S'ANDEnsoN.

